1% from the executives would have helped better that the 10% they've chosen to let go. They seriously need to adopt a friendlier business model, as it stands things will get worse and worse, despite the good figures in sales.

Just another 80% to go. If it was only 10% staffed, perhaps they would only have the developers needed to make games that were truly excellent insted of trying to go for homoginized IP's that were once unique but now look identical to each other going for mass market appeal which incidentally "hows that going for you EA?"

Man i'd love for all of the developers working for EA (not known to carry much job security as it is) to be creating small development teams themselves and making the games they truly want to make on kickstarter and the like. Let their real talents shine instead of slaving away on yearly cash-in updates designed to keep the executives raking in cash while the actual artists creating the content that makes them rich get shown the door after their work is done. It's a parasitic relationship instead of a symbiotic one.

Think about it EA employees, without you they would just be well dressed execs making nothing and earning nothing. So get out there, get organised and start up your kickstarters ;)

Well done EA Management - you have proved yet again how incompetent you are. If I were Disney, I would insist on a change of senior management so my money doesn't get wasted. These upcoming Star Wars games are not guaranteed to make money even if the new films do.

I have stopped buying EA games after ME3 and from the look of things will not buy any EA game in the future. While I am glad EA is taking a huge hit these days I am not happy that the staff got fired are the ones that most likely did not have to do anything with the idiotic management decisions. My wish now is that for the people who got fired to get new jobs immediately and the for the top management to get fired and be replaced by those that have common sense.

While they keep decimating the hard working developers and staff, the true shithead suits higher up in the ranks with all their stupid ideas they keep pushing will stay and even get a payrise and bonus payments - That's fine though, they'll keep sinking faster and faster that way until there's only executives left and no more develoeprs and then EA will disappear, finally, for the better of everything gaming related.

I wonder what the numbers were for the staff they laid off? That is, staff vs. management vs. executive management. So many American companies are getting top heavy and when they don't meet financial expectations, who do they eliminate but the bottom end.

Even if you don't like EA, remember, most of their decision making is being made at the top and "those" people probably kept their job through all this.

They already have that - it's called Team Fortress 2/Counter Strike Yada Yada.

Valve is incapable of making a Battlefield game. Valve games are like cheap chewing gum - chew the stick a little, spit it out, get another, repeat ad nauseum with the only result being that before you know it you just went through 5 packs of cheap chewing gum for nothing.

@Chaloner11 Um, then why doesn't Valve just create a superior Battlefield without buying EA then, like the Battlefield IP has anything special worth paying for. Also, the game would be released in 2018.

@berserker66666 EA is just upholding an old tradition: "A cohort selected for punishment by decimation was divided into groups of ten; each group drew lots and the soldier on whom the lot fell was executed by his nine comrades, often by stoning or clubbing. The remaining soldiers were often given rations of barley instead of wheat."

@S0loMANgrundy Actually, I hate to say it but I think you're right. Whatever the people who lost their jobs will do next, at least they won't be working at EA. So they can do whatever they're going to do with more pride.

@shanoobergloobe precisely my point my good man...precisely my point...problem is, that is not how capitalism works, CEO took all the blame and a golden boot, the other execs which have at least as much fault on their hands as he, continue running the company...and ordinary people who most likely worked their butts off are being made redundant...

@MoronGotMyName@berserker66666 Combination of ethics in how they treat their customers and their employees, work conditions, labor violations, the general buying out of other companies and then slamming them shut, ruining various gaming IPs, introducing nickel and diming methods, AODRM, on and on and on

@awhite33@Shanks_D_Chop Time will tell but I wouldn't be surprised if any changes that EA does decide to implement will be done so over such a long time period that they'll fail critically before any initiatives bear fruit.